Abstract:
A focusing electromagnetic acoustic transducer is provided which comprises a pair of meander coils, three insulation sheets and a magnet. The meander coils are formed on both surfaces of one of the insulation sheets to be positioned such that the meander coils are coincident with each other, and they are covered with the other insulation sheets. Each of the meander coils comprises a plurality of coil segments wherein intervals between adjacent coil segments sequentially are varied from one end to the other end. The magnet is positioned above the layers consisting the meander coils and insulation sheets. The coil segments of each meander coil are straight lines in parallel with each others, sector shapes on respective circulars having the same center point, or generally circular shapes having the same center point.
Abstract:
An electro-magnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) system and method for controlling the EMAT system are provided. The system includes an electromagnet array with one or more electromagnets. Each electromagnet includes a magnetic core and a wound coil wrapped around the magnetic core. The electromagnet array generates bias magnetic fields having different patterns when the wound coils are energized differently.
Abstract:
A system for searching for a resonant frequency of a transducer, comprising: an initializing unit (11), a phase determining unit (12), an interval hopping control unit (13), a hopping interval generating unit (15), a frequency output control unit (17), a phase acquiring unit (16), and a resonant frequency obtaining unit (14). The search range of the interval for the last search can be narrowed by at least half thereof in each frequency hopping, thus allowing for reduced amount of searches.
Abstract:
A system for searching for a resonant frequency of a transducer, comprising: an initializing unit (11), a phase determining unit (12), an interval hopping control unit (13), a hopping interval generating unit (15), a frequency output control unit (17), a phase acquiring unit (16), and a resonant frequency obtaining unit (14). The search range of the interval for the last search can be narrowed by at least half thereof in each frequency hopping, thus allowing for reduced amount of searches.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an electromagnetic acoustic transducer excitation system comprising a tone burst generator, the tone burst generator comprising: an oscillator device configured to produce a radio frequency signal; an analog switch configured to produce an output based on the radio frequency signal produced by the oscillator device and a control signal; a pre-amplifier configured to amplify the output of the analog switch and produce a tone burst output signal; and a control module configured to produce the control signal for providing to the analog switch.